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Re: Nemesis = How much stupid shit can we add to Wrath of Kahn?
[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Creexul :("][quote name="FABIO"]Kahn- Meaningful intro that will come into play later on. Nemesis- Pointless Road Warrior segment. Kahn- Villains gains control of existing Federation ship. Nemesis- Romulans trust and allow their slave race that hates their guts to construct and man an unstoppable battleship with build in doomsday weapon and have it orbit their planet. Kahn- Cat and mouse chase where the Enterprise overcomes a major disadvantage with clever tactical maneuvering. The benchmark in capital ship combat for future games and movies. Nemesis- No chase. Enterprise overcomes a major tactical advantage with lots and lots of stupid shit and zero use of tactics. Kahn tactic: Use build in overrides in computer to level the playing field. Nemesis tactic: Take advantage of the villain wanting to fuck Troi via telepathic link in order to detect the villain's cloaked ship. Kahn tactic: Fake out enemy into believing Enterprise is more damaged than it really is. Nemesis tactic: Physically ram a ship at close to light speed and come out relatively unscathed because the Enterprise's saucer is all pointy like a knife and stuff. Kahn tactic: Lure villain's ship into a nebula where they will lose their shield/sensor advantage. Nemesis tactic: Beam Picard aboard the enemy ship and have him John Woo his way past hundreds of enemy crew to reach the bridge. Kahn Tactic: After the villain's ship is crippled and dead in space, activate a doomsday bomb that will kill everyone before they can get away....unless Spock can expose himself to a deadly radiation leak to make repairs (left all their radiation suits at home I guess). Nemesis tactic: After the villain's ship is crippled and dead in space, yet somehow the doomsday weapon that takes up 80% of its superstructure is still intact, activate said doomsday weapon to kill Enterprise. Hey, every single external weapon may be out, but this power guzzling planet-killer that runs through the entire ship is the only thing that still works! Enterprise cannot get away....unless <s>Spock</s> Data can sacrificie himself by.....leaping across empty space onto the other ship, make his way to engineering, and fire a hand phaser into the reactor. [/quote] One thing you missed. In Star Trek 2, Khan is severely wounded when they fire directly onto the bridge and blow off a warp nacelle and there's fuckin awesome explosions and shit. In Nemesis, Picard kills his younger, balder clone by pulling down a wall pipe which the dude runs into. You can almost hear Star Trek fans across the world going "........oh." Not even hidden in the final finished film is the pipe sliding slightly upwards on the actor's chest plate, and then there are camera's filming there and a bunch of people in t-shirts standing around about 10 feet away. You can't see them, but you know they're there, and that they've pretty much given up on even making this movie. The guy fuckin bounced off THE FATAL WALL PIPE. There were a VERY few good things in Nemesis about Picard contemplating this and that about how his life could be different. Very TNG in a good way. That's about 10 good minutes of the film out of the rest of the crap, bad action, rerouting auxiliary power to shields, shields still being down to 30%, warp containment field in danger of collapsing, evasive manuevers, a retarded Data clone, and forced humor.[/quote] I liked the ramming scene. I have no idea why Fabs thinks the ship was going light speed. They accelerated from a standstill to as fast as they could in the short space between the ships, which wasn't very fast at all. And the front of the bridge getting shot off was kinda cool. As far as Spock and radiation goes: don't they have robots in the future? It looked like any old Toyota assembly arm coulda done what Spock did. Granted, radiation does bad things to computers too, but if we can harden CPUs against solar radiation, I think in the future they could manage it.[/quote]